The Age of Exploration:Would you go?





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Shogunate
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Japan, Nagasaki
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Origin of Christianity,
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Officials (Bugyo)
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To spread that Christianity is banned in Japan. Japan wants to maintain control over their people.
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Shogunate was afraid that once Christianity becomes famous in Japan, he might lose his power, in order to prevent that happening, he came up with these extreme edicts. Language of Edicts shows that the shogunate feels really insecure about spread of Christianity in Japan
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The Shogunate used very strong language, and the edicts themselves are very extreme, which indicates that Shogunate would do whatever it takes to sustain his power



Port 3

Identify the causes of African slavery.

Slavery has been in Africa for thousands of years. However it reached to gargantuan proportions from fifteenth onwards due to colonialism. Firstly Pope approved slavery in 1452 and secondly due to colonialism, suddenly a lot of workforce was required in various kinds of plantations all over the world.

Explain the Triangular Trade Route.

The dreaded Triangular slave trade starts with sugar cane being shipped off to Europe. From Europe, the beaded jewellery, cloth and other manufactured goods were shipped to Africa. These items were exchanged on the Western coasts for slaves. Slaves were then roughly taken by the ships for the journey to the Caribbean.

Identify the consequences of the slave trade.

The horrible consequences of slave trade were economical and racial divide. The slave trade created a rift between white a black, which is still there. Besides that it boosted the economy of the western world and destroyed Africa economically.

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Names
Country
Dates for voyage
Size of fleet
Discoveries
Christopher Columbus
Italy
October 12, 1492
September 25, 1943
May 30, 1498

1502 (30 ships)
3 ships(90 member crew
17 (1200 members)

(6 ships )
4
The results were good Columbus was god fearing man as he abhorred slavery. He discovered Haiti and San Salvador. In last voyage, he discovered America, though reached till Caribbean Islands.
Amerigo Vespucci
Spain
First Voyage: 1497
Second Voyage: 1499
Third Voyage: 1500
Fourth Voyage: 1503
N/A
First Voyage: 1497: Vespucci began his voyage from Cadiz on May 10, 1497. Though the voyage
Second Voyage: 1499: Amerigo Vespucci began his second voyage in 1499. The expedition was commanded by Alonso de Ojeda. The crew took separate routes on reaching the Cape Verde Islands. While Ojeda went to the Guianas before moving on to Hispaniola, Vespucci explored to Cape Santo Agostinho.
Third Voyage: 1500: In 1500, Amerigo made an important voyage, sponsored by King Manuel I of Portugal. He discovered the new world during this voyage. Earlier, commander Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil en route to the Cape of Good Hope and India.
Fourth Voyage: 1503: The 1503 voyage uneventful but the crew fought and was divided.
Vasco da Gama
India
1st voyage : July 8, 1497

2nd voyage: Feb. 12, 1502 (15 ships, 8oo men)

3rd voyage: 1519 (died due to malar
four ships with a crew of 170 men
All the three voyages to India. First he discovered the route to India via Cape of good hope. Voyages were sponsored by the king of The second time he was sent to India to consolidate Portuguese power. Third time he was sent as Portugal’s viceroy.

Mikaella Hahn
South America
1st voyage Oct 14th 1512
17 ships
870 crews
5 dogs
2 birds
1duck
6 cats
Mikaella Hahn, a woman of curiosity ponders what would it be like to travel South America. On her birthday, she decides to go on a voyage. She asks her KIS crews to come along with her, also decides to take her pets. She gets 17 ships for her crews and pets. Mikaella struggles since none of the crews went outside of Korea. For few weeks they go across North Pacific Ocean, for first 2 weeks, all of the crews were excited about what is going to happen, but starting from the 3rd week, they are all exhausted from such a long voyage. Her favorite cat dies. 5 weeks later they finally see a continent, but they are not sure whether the continent is South America. They land at the continent and figures that they departed at the right place. They try to travel but due to language difference, they decide to leave. After another 2 months, they finally arrive to Korea and go back to school.




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The 15th and 16th century were a time of exploration and discovery for European nations. Taking advantage of new maritime knowledge and inventions, European powers undertook sea expeditions to expand their trade and influence.
  • What possible rewards might come from exploring the seas for new lands?
Rewards what European might have gotten from exploring the seas for new lands, are that pride and the status of finding new land and spreading Christianity and profiting Europeans want to explore distant lands. In addition, by exploring the seas for new lands, Europeans achieved their goals, which were expanding Christian religion, in crease patriotism and popularity, and find new sources of wealth.
  • What are the risks involved in embarking on a voyage into the unknown?
Embarking on a voyage requires a lot of background information of a destination Embarking on a voyage into the unknown involved many problems. Firstly inhospitable sea may have brought diseases, secondly the hostile people of unknown destinations and thirdly the pirates. There was fear of death in all the three experiences. The ships used to sink, hostile people used to kill and lastly pirates first used to rob and then kill. Every sailor had to undergo the life and death situation in voyages. Many perished, but for a handful of them who survived go accolades.
  • What will you do if you actually run into other people?
As a 15th century sailor, I would have selected physically sound, able bodied men who could fight well if the situation occurred. While running into hostile natives, I would have first taken shelter against any impending rock or arrow. Then I would have consolidated my men and attacked them. I would have taken care that my attack would be focused more on scaring than killing, which we would have done easily by firing our guns in the air. This way, we would have put our point without unnecessary bloodshed.



I would certainly select compass as this is most useful item in a sea voyage. It is made of a magnet encased in a small box, which is suspended with a pin so that it moves freely. The magnet always directs to the earth’s magnetic north and south. In deep sea and especially in the night where the sun is also not there to guide us; only the compass tells us the correct directions for moving ahead.